We all travel to top yoga destinations like Bali, India, and even Greece to embark on a type of yoga teacher training or retreat to escape from our everyday duties of life. To be able to practice yoga or become a certified yoga teacher in these insta-worthy locations is a dream in itself, ignore the obvious juxtaposition but did you know that embarking on a 200-hour yoga teacher training can bring wonders into your professional career life as well?

As we have this space in our life to reset and find intention, we also will come back to our everyday lives eventually. But to think that yoga teacher training can make these daily duties easier for us sounds wonderful, sign me up!

1. Yoga teaches self-discipline 

Rise and shine, during your 200-hour yoga teacher training in Bali you’ll be expected to wake up very early in the morning to make it for your first practice. You’ll have intensively long days with time dedicated to studying, theory classes, and physical yoga classes with short breaks. Now times that by daily for a matter of weeks!

All yoga teacher training requires a physical and mental commitment as well as a deep willingness to learn, but it also leaves room for you to shape your attitude and set intentions, and focus on the goals you currently have. By practicing a daily routine and being determined to do so, you’ll begin to see yourself practicing this in work and your everyday life. No more procrastination or daily burnouts, you’ll learn to focus on yourself and makes responsible and conscious decisions.

2. Yoga boosts your self-confidence

Like going to the gym for the first time we always wonder if people are judging us for what we’re doing, the same goes for going to our very first yoga class. Truth is everyone is on their own journey and appreciate that you’ve taken the time to try something new. During your yoga teacher training in Bali, we take it further by guiding you in teaching a class. Through practice teaching, you’ll have this opportunity to speak up and become the leader of your fellow students.

By practicing this early on in your yoga teacher training, you’ll create your own strength and skill and find what makes you unique. Once leaving the training and back into your corporate work setting this drive of new confidence will help you smash out any boundaries of getting higher up on that corporate ladder! You’ll be more confident in leading meetings or speaking about requests or even the bold decision to resign and embark on a new career path as a yoga teacher. Your new self-confidence is a force to be reckoned with!

3. Yoga helps to reduce stress 

The most well-known benefit of practicing yoga daily is how it helps us deal with stress. Stress and anxiety are something we experience in every aspect of our lives but how we deal with them is what matters. During your 200-hour yoga teacher training you’ll combine daily yoga practice with breathing techniques like pranayama and you’ll begin to experience completely relaxed muscles and a slower heart rate and blood pressure, we like to call this finding zen on your mat.

This gives you the opportunity to revise your emotional reactions to negative situations and how to deal with them better. Instead of taking on all problems at once, you’ll begin to build patience and gratitude to deal with them one by one. This applies to your workplace too, no more getting overwhelmed by your workload or recurring issues because when our nervous systems slow down through a daily yoga practice you’ll begin to feel calmer dealing with negative situations in a corporate setting.